I am part of a 4.5 team in Colorado.  On Saturday, we had practice and only 3 of us showed up, so I suggested a few drills.

One of the guys proudly stated that he hadn’t done drills in “over 20 years.”  Regardless, we proceeded with doing some drills.  After hitting a bunch of balls, I could see a marked difference in my teammates consistency and footwork.

Read the article below for more great drills to improve your tennis game…

Tennis Drill: Serving to Cones

Category: Serving

Submitted by: Brandon K. eteamz.com

Drill Description:Take six tennis ball cans and set them up as targets. Place three cans in each service box. One should be located at the corner of the service line and the middle line on the deuce side. One should be placed in the middle of the box and the other should by place where the sideline meets the service line. The targets should be placed in the same places on the ad court as well.

Now take a basket of balls and practice serving at these targets. Hit approximately fifteen balls at each target. If you want to work on your wide serve, you can move the cans where the service line meets the sideline. Move the cans about eighteen inches towards the net. Serving at these targets will give you something to aim at when you are playing a match….

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Tennis Drills For Tennis Success

My buddy and I love our summer tennis drills.  We can groove our strokes, hit a lot of balls, and get a great workout.

Category: Overheads
Submitted by: Brandon K.

Drill Description: Player A starts at the net. Player B,  the ball-feeder, stands on the baseline. Player A touches the net with his racket signaling Player B to feed him an overhead. Player A then shuffles back into position to hit the overhead.

After he hits the overhead, he runs up and touches the net with his racket. When he does this, the person on the baseline feeds him another overhead. Repeat this until ten overheads have been hit. Switch and have the person who was feeding balls now hit overheads. Repeat drill three times or more if necessary.

This is a good drill to work on moving back for your overheads and to work on the scissor-kick jump that is necessary to jump for some overheads.
 

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Tennis Drills – What Do You Do Best?

Do you find that you hit the ball without having a specific strategy?  Here is something to think about…

In this video, Paul Annacone how to construct a point.  You should incorporate tennis drills like these into your tennis training.  When you construct a point, you should be figuring out ways to exploit your opponets weaknesses and emphasize your strenghts.  

Here is how I construct my points:  I will try to use heavy topspin cross court groundstrokes until my opponet hits me a short ball.  When I get a short ball I will hit an approach shot and attack the net.  

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One of My Favorite Tennis Drills

Last week, I was in Palm Desert visiting family.  I got to play a bunch of tennis, which was a blast.

While in a private lesson, I got to do one of my favorite tennis drills.

Tennis Drills – 3/4 Speed Ground Strokes

We did cross court ground forehands at 3/4 speed with the shots going 3-4 feet above the net.  The goal was go hit the ball 50 times consecutively.

Once we accomplished this, we switched to backhands until we reached 50 consecutive strokes.

Next we did forehand to backhand down the line

We finished with backhands to forehands down the line.

Tennis Drills – Why This Drill Works

The 3/4 speed consistently drills is important on many levels:

• This drill makes you consistent
• This drill improves your footwork
• This drill improves your fitness.

Get out and try this drill.  Shoot me an email when your done and share your experience!